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The Daniel E and Joyce G Straus Family Foundation at a glance

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The Daniel E and Joyce G Straus Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$15MInternational$1.3MReligion$1.0MEducation$210kHealth$180kCivil Rights$83kArts & Culture$32kMembership Benefit$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $250k+1 grant · $3.0M
$3,321
Median grant
4
States reached
$80M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARLES SCHWAB DAF FUND$3,000,000
FRIENDS OF THE IDF$10,000
CONGREGATION KEHILATH JESHURUN$5,827
ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL$5,125
GOLDA OCH ACADEMY$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAT MELECH$5,000
THE ORGANIZATION FOR THE RESOLUTION OF AGUNOT DBA ORA$3,600
CONGREGATION AHAVATH TORAH$3,321
BERGEN HATZALAH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC$2,500
SHARSHERET$2,500
STARDUST FERTILITY FOUNDATION$1,810
BIGVISION FOUNDATION$1,800
ENGLEWOOD MIKVAH ASSOCIATION$1,800
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $5k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AND CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CLIFTON-PASSAIC: $1k → 12%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $2k → 16%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $1k → 16%METROPOLITAN NY COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $2k → 17%ONEG SHABBAT OF THE WEST SIDE: $2k → 17%ONEG SHABBAT OF THE WEST SIDE: $2k → 17%ONEG SHABBAT OF THE WEST SIDE: $2k → 17%ONEG SHABBAT OF THE WEST SIDE: $2k → 17%ONEG SHABBAT OF THE WEST SIDE: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MD
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 61 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
77

Total granted

$17M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+38%

Still filing today

51%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthEducationReligionHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AC
    AMIT CHILDREN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $667k · revenue +134%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $414k · revenue +39%
  • OT
    Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel
    4× · 2018–2023 · $310k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • CS
    CHARLES SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $3.1M
  • NY
    NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +13%
  • A
    AIEF
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
2
Sherit Isroel
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3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
University of Judaism Foundation
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5
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
6
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
7
American Friends of Neveh Zion

To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel

Religion
8
The Shalem Foundation

To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.

Crime & Legal
9
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
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10
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
12
Ohr Meir Ubracha

The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bergen Hatzalah Emergency Medical Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 148 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
49/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHARLES SCHWAB DAF FUND: $11,000,000 · OtherCHARLES SCHWAB DAF FUNDTHE STRAUS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3,452,000 · OtherTHE STRAUS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONCHARLES SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $3,100,000 · OtherCHARLES SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND+93 more: $932,624 · OtherAMIT CHILDREN INC: $667,460 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $246,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISHMAT INC: $202,500 · International+11 more: $74,799 · InternationalUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $413,540 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $129,200 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $90,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $13,189 · PhilanthropyOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $310,000 · ReligionETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA: $275,000 · Religion+5 more: $28,300 · ReligionMORIAH SCHOOL OF ENGLEWOOD: $74,400 · EducationNLI USA INC: $21,600 · EducationBEN PORAT YOSEF INC: $20,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE: $12,500 · EducationGolda Och Academy: $6,000 · EducationYESHIVAT MAHARAT INC: $5,000 · Education+4 more: $8,250 · EducationMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $18,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,800 · Arts & CultureSharsheret Inc: $14,518 · HealthBIGVISION Foundation: $7,200 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $5,300 · HealthBERGEN HATZALAH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $2,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC: $1,500 · Health+4 more: $1,294 · Health
Other$18,484,624International$1,190,759Philanthropy$645,929Religion$613,300Education$147,750Arts & Culture$69,800Health$35,812

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMIT CHILDREN INC: $667,460 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $413,540 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $310,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA: $275,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $246,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISHMAT INC: $202,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $129,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $90,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMORIAH SCHOOL OF ENGLEWOOD: $74,400 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNLI USA INC: $21,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $21,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $20,840 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEN PORAT YOSEF INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEZER MIZION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $14,518 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $11,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetENGLEWOOD MIKVAH ASSOCIATION INC: $10,800 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZAKA NORTH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONEG SHABBAT OF THE WEST SIDE DBA TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF MANHATTAN: $9,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBIGVISION Foundation: $7,200 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGolda Och Academy: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TENUFA BAKEHILA: $5,400 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $5,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject Kesher: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Zionist Movement Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYESHIVAT MAHARAT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $4,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAT MELECH INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC: $2,800 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBERGEN HATZALAH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $1,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY LTD: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Frisch School: $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $1,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds AMIT CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
  • Who funds ETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISHMAT INC ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds MORIAH SCHOOL OF ENGLEWOOD ↗
  • Who funds MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NLI USA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds BEN PORAT YOSEF INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds EZER MIZION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundFjcThe Lee and Cheryl La…Kolatch Family Founda…David & Esther Musche…M D Katz Foundation I…The Alan and Elisa Pi…The Kahan Family Foun…Jewish Federation of …The Arthur & Joyce Fe…Jewish Federation of …H&H Charitable Founda…
Jewish Communal FundNY39.9× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · The Lee and Cheryl Lasher Family Foundation Inc · Kolatch Family Foundation · David & Esther Muschel Foundation · M D Katz Foundation Inc · The Alan and Elisa Pines Family Foundation Inc · The Kahan Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · The Arthur & Joyce Fein Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · H&H Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Daniel E and Joyce G Straus Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Daniel E and Joyce G Straus Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jewish Family Service & Children's Center of Clifton-Passaicinc: 19% of income from government
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Heichal Hatorah: 1% of income from government
  • Mesorah Heritage Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Golda Och Academy: 0% of income from government
  • The Frisch School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Daniel E and Joyce G Straus Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 148 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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